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| | The History of Shelby and Moultrie Counties, Illinois |
 | | At Camp Butler, three or four weeks after his enlis tment, he was taken sick and returned to Shelbyville, where he was in had health and unable to work for nearly a year. |
 | | Three other children by his second marriage are dec eased: William, Samuel and Frankie, who died in infancy; and Belle, the youngest daughter, who died on the 25th of November, 1879, in her sixteenth year. |
 | | After securing the elements of a good education in the co mmon schools, at the age of seventeen he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, in which he pursued a literary course, interrupted by intervals, of teaching school, --the means by which he secured the funds to prosecute his studies. |
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